Skate Melbourne Plan

The City of Melbourne is a world renowned skating destination. With skateboarding in the 2020 Olympics, its global popularity continues to grow.

Skating enlivens public spaces and benefits the local community. It’s a sustainable way to get around, stay healthy, happy and connect with others.

As the city grows it’s important to consider everyone’s needs. That’s why we’re developing the Skate Melbourne Plan. Our draft Plan sets out how we aim to support and manage skating in the city.

Draft Skate Melbourne Plan

To achieve the vision of the draft Skate Melbourne Plan, we are proposing the following key aims and corresponding actions. These were developed through research, community engagement and working closely with a community advisory group.

It is complex finding suitable locations for skating, particularly in a growing capital city with limited space. To ensure that areas are accessible, safe and inclusive while minimising potential conflict, we have developed an assessment criteria to help identify suitable and non-suitable areas for skating. This includes:

Land ownership and useConsider how a space is used and the needs of community members in close proximity to avoid potential conflict and issues.

Site safety, inclusiveness and accessibilityAll users should feel safe and welcome within and on their way to public spaces.

Proximity to complementary uses and usersThere are many other activities which are similar to skating eg loud, physical and require hard surfaces.

Avoid close proximity to conflicting usesBy avoiding close proximity to conflicting land use (eg residents), the potential for future issues are reduced.

Potential to provide new opportunityDesignated skateable spaces increase participation opportunities and enjoyment for all users.

An indicative network of different types of spaces spread across the municipality to increase accessibility and provision of skate-able spaces for all precincts is identified below. For now, these types of spaces are not specific so that further investigation and community engagement on the feasibility of these spaces can be undertaken.

The City of Melbourne can increase the accessibility of the social, mental and physical benefits of skating on the community by providing a diverse range of high quality spaces for skaters to hone their skills and programs to learn about responsible and safe skating.

The City of Melbourne can be on the forefront of skating talent by ensuring there is proficient support and investment into skating. In turn this better supports the lucrative global skate industry, attracts increased tourism and creates economic benefits for the city.

For council, skating can be easy and cost effective to integrate into public spaces. High quality skate spaces can attract high levels of use in smaller areas than traditional sports facilities require.

Background

Click on one of the tiles below to find out more about skate in the city. Or read the Background Paper in the Document Library.

FAQs

FAQs

Skating is growing in popularity so it is important that we plan ahead for the location and management of skating in the city. The City of Melbourne is committed to supporting an active Melbourne and skating is a great way to get around the city, stay fit and connect with others.

The Skate Melbourne Plan aims to better integrate skating across the city over the next 10 years and aims to:

Encourage safe, inclusive and multi-use public spaces for all city users

Promote and support a healthy and inclusive skate culture and community

Plan for and provide adequate and accessible spaces for diverse skating styles in the City of Melbourne.

The draft plan has been developed in collaboration with professional to intermediate skaters, residents, police, and security, design, university and youth representatives. Feedback from 505 respondents was received during the first phase of community consultation in March 2016.

The draft plan was endorsed by the Future Melbourne Committee on 6 September 2016 and we are now seeking feedback from the community. Your suggestions and feedback will inform the final skate Melbourne Plan that will be presented to Council in early 2017.

It is complex finding suitable locations for skating, particularly in a growing capital city with limited space. We have developed comprehensive criteria to help identify suitable and non suitable areas for skating. The key categories are site sensitivity, accessibility and safety. By analysing spaces through these lenses we can find where skating may be suitable and then test these locations and ideas with the community. For more specific detail, please refer to the Location Assessment Criteria.

The map suggests a range of possible locations across the municipality to improve the spread and accessibility of skateable spaces. These spaces are indicative only. Potential future skating sites will be fully reviewed and analysed against the Location Assessment criteria. If considered suitable through the assessment, we will then test locations and ideas with the community through extensive consultation.

No. By using the comprehensive Location Assessment Criteria, we will be able to find where skating is most suitable and where it is not suitable in the city. This will highlight opportunities of where we can integrate more skate activity and other similar uses. By analysing spaces through these lenses we can find where skating may be suitable and then test these locations and ideas with the community.

The City of Melbourne has two skate parks: Riverslide Skate Park in the Alexandra Gardens and South Kensington Skate Park in JJ Holland Park, Kensington. Both were built in 2000-2001 and have been identified in need of replacement within the next five years.

Yes, skateboarding is legal. Under local law, skateboarding is only illegal in designated prohibited spaces which include: Lincoln Square in Carlton, State Library in Melbourne, Burston Reserve in East Melbourne and Waterview Walk in Docklands. The City of Melbourne encourages skaters to be safe, consider other footpath users and share the space. More specific details can be found in the Activities Local Law 2009, Toy Vehicles section.

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